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Boswell's Clap and Other Essays : Medical Analyses of Literary Men's Afflictions by William B. Ober is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Boswell's Clap and Other Essays : Medical Analyses of Literary Men's Afflictions about?
In this "cock to Aesculapius," a distin-guished pathologist shows how simple medical analyses can be applied centu-ries later to reconstruct the scene and as-sign a more probable cause of disability or death. The tenessays selected for this volume range from an investigation of Boswell's repeated infection with gonorrhea to a critical examination of Plato's account of Socrates' death in the "Phaedo, "subjects both ancient and modern. Other essays include studies of the ailments of two medical do
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- Author
- William B. Ober
- Publisher
- Allison & Busby; ALLISON BUSBY
- Published
- 1990
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780749000110
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Medical, Literary Collections, Medicine
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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